Collapsible drinking-cup.



M. SHOLL.

GOLLAPSIBLE DRINKING 0UP.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 1, 1909.

957,264, Patented May 10,1910.

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M. SHOLL.

GOLLAPSIBLE DRINKING CUP. APPLIGATION FILED no.1. 1909.'

I 957,264, Patented May 10,1910.

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more specifically to that class thereof so conconvenience in storage andtransportation.

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,the inner or body portion of the cup. Comprised 'in said similarorigins y flat substantially square comparatively simple construction.

With these objects in view my invention consists in a collapsibledrmkingcup characappended claim.

a piece of chemically pureiwaterproof fab- UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoE.

SHOLL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COLLAPSIBLE DRINKING-CUP.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 1, 1399. Serial No. 530,892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be" known that I, Max SHOLL, a citizen of the .United States, residingat Chicago,. county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible Drinking- Cups, ofwhich the following is a specification;

My invention relates to drinking cups and structed as to adapt the-sameto be collapsed or foldedinto a small compass for The object of myinvention is the pro vision of a drinking cup of the character mentionedwhich can be folded so as to adapt the same for carriage in the pocketor an ordinary hand urse, which will be effectual in use, and 0 strong,durable and Other objects will appear hereinafter.

terized as above mentioned and in certain details of construction andarrangement of parts all as will be hereinafter fully described andparticularly pointed out in the M invention will be more readilyunderstoo byreference to the accompanying drawings/forming a part ofthis specification, and in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view partially in section of my improveddrinking cup showortion are preferably two flexible members 2, the samebeing formed preferably of a chemically pure suitable waterproofparaflin or oiled paper. Interposedcentrally between said members 2 isric 3 of dimensions considerably. less than those of the members 2. Thebmpheral.

'edge portions of. said members 2 and 3 are bent upwardly and crimped toform the lateral substantially perpendicular, preferably slightlyflaring, walls 4 of the cup. In-

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closing the body 1, the same being secured as by stitching to the upperedge thereof is an outer tubular casing 5- of a foldable nature andpossessing morerigidity and firmness than the members 2 and 3. .In theformation of the body l a templet 6 of a frusto-conical shape ispreferably employed. With such employ ment, the members2 and 3relatively arranged as before stated, are placed centrally upon theupper extremity of said templet. The peripheral edge portions of saidmem-- bers are then bent downwardly, as shownih Fig. 7, and crimped,this bein readily effected by the fingers, at

pre erably. four points designdted as 7, as c early shown in Fig. 5,into conformity with the contourof said templet. This being done thetubular-f casing 5 is slipped over said templet and members 2 and 3,whereupon the latter and the former, up being removed from the templet,may he s ve to ether as before stated. The upper edges of the members 2,in this arrangement it will be found, project in a ragged manner abovethe upper edge of the casing 5. By means of a pair of scissors or a likevtool these edges may evidently be I readily trimmed to register withsaid edge of said casing, as illustrated in the drawings. Said casing asseen preferably rojects below the lower extremity of t e body '1'whereby the bottom of the latter is protected against injury orpuncture.

Vitn the provision of a cup of such con-I struction, the same by firstupwardly indenting the bottom of the body 1 as shown in F igl .3, may bereadily lapsed to a position as shown in Fi 2, in

which position the same ma: he rea ilym serted into the pocketor anyother suitable place for carriage. By forming thebody of the cup of twothicknesses of paper and the bottom thereof with an additional reinforc'ing thickness of fabric, the same will evidently not be readilysusceptible to rupture or puncture, because of folding or creasing.rovision of the; I .againstwertical collapsion, also ad itional thereof.Further by the outer casing 5, the cup will e rendere protection for thebody 1 will d d thereby provi e While I have shown what I deem to be thelongitudinally. c01

preferable form of my device I do not wish to be limited thereto asthere mightbe various changes made in the details oi construction andthe arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of theinvention com =rehended within the scope of the appen ed claim.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is:

A collapsible drinking cup comprising an inner flexible substantiallcylindrical bodysaid body consisting of a bottom, and latera wallsformed integral with said bottom, said bottom and lateral walls beingformed of two originally flat sheets of flexible waterproof paper and anintermediate sheet of v water-proof fabric interposed between thebottom-forming portions of said paper sheets, the said intermediatesheet being of less size than said other sheets, the per] heral edgeportions of said sheets beln crimped to form said lateral walls of saibody; and a longitudinally foldable relatively rigid tubular casinginclosing said body and secured thereto at the upper edge thereof,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAX SHOLL.

Witnesses:

IIELEN F. LILLIS, Josm'm R. H. Porrs.

